Dave Schoettinger’s Reviews > The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 > Status Update

The impact of Reconstruction on the American South can best be gauged by the expeditiousness of the State of Mississippi's ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. That amendment, eliminating slavery, was ratified by Mississippi in 1995, a mere 130 years after the end of the Civil War.